03-13-2019, 09:01 PM
(03-13-2019, 08:44 PM)Steven Jonaitis Wrote:(03-13-2019, 06:19 PM)nili Wrote: To be honest: no, not when asked in such a way.
Why not?
Because you seem to be asking for open-ended permission. This could certainly be benign (though inartful), but it can also serve as a polemical means of proselytizing whereby a person asks increasingly pointed question fully intending to argue his or her answers to those questions later in the dialogue.
To be is to stand for. - Abraham Joshua Heschel